In the first stages of my informal research I had no trouble finding information on Disney movies.  There are so many blog posts and opinions on every aspect regarding Disney movies.  The problem came along when I started my formal research.  The databases did not have exactly what I was looking for.  Sure they had a few articles on Disney movies but not enough and not what I was looking for.

I was getting very frustrated and I began to give up on my topic.  I decided to take a look onto Google Scholars and everything changed.  There were numerous amounts of sources!

I was surprised, happy, and relieved to find all of these new scholarly articles!  Who knew I could find these scholarly articles on Google Scholar when I couldn’t on the databases?!  I was happy I could keep my topic but now I had to get down to some serious researching.  I found scholarly articles on Google Scholar that were useful and even brought new ideas to my topic.  I also got ideas of different key words and topics that I was able to type into the databases.  So with the help of Google Scholar I was able to find scholarly articles on the databases as well.

After reading many different sources I have found a lot of great information for my topic.  I have moved away from just focusing on Disney Princesses and am looking more into Disney movies as a whole.  I am writing my paper on the progression of Disney movies, looking specifically to gender and race. From this moment of difficulty I have learned to not limit where I research.  Looking to Google Scholar was a great option for me, and I always plan on using it in the future.  From sources on Google Scholar I also discovered new databases that are available to us at UD.  So in the future I plan to look at many different databases before thinking about giving up.  If it wasn’t for Google Scholar I don’t know where I would be!  Probably still stuck reading blogs!  So thank you Google Scholar!